russia await the verdict for its people would be rudy united russia party appearing to be clear winners of the country's parliamentary elections as counting continues but so far for that short of an overall majority after a big drop in its approach one of the latest results and analysis to view the country decides. also this hour iran's military forces say they have shown down an unmanned u.s. drone in the east of the country according to state news agency. also a roundup of the week's top stories the u.n. if human rights commissioner calls for international intervention in syria but russia and china vote against the resolution saying foreign meddling will only

cause more bloodshed. it's a five am here in moscow you're watching all see live from the russian capital with me a special russia election coverage and the week's top stories coming your way. so straight to our extensive coverage of russia's parliamentary elections here on r c codes all over russia being counted now on this central election committee's publishing although it is a big it live for us so she's really been notionally is that really it was one of the latest figures that well you know he's the latest at this hour. almost eighty

four percent of those have so far been counted the united russia party is still a clear leader of the sea is parliamentary election you have to understand that the votes have been counted right now at this very moment and the figures are changing all the time hovering around a fifty percent mark but as we can see right now on our monitor the poll top pros get fifteen point twenty percent still far below sixty four percent to twenty two thousand and seven followed by the communist party with around twenty percent it's been quite stable in the last hours it's followed by fair russia party and liberal democrats each with just under thirteen percent as we can see just to remind you to get into the new dumas which is the activists here for the first time ever for five years not full fall as before a party has to gain the least seventy percent of those parties that is for parties

i've just mentioned to pass these seven percent barrier three others did not and their votes will eventually be divided among those four leading part is that means that eventually they will get bonus extra votes. so we understand the process of vote counting continues but can you tell us what are the service saying about how the election went. well several parties rival parties have been reporting this several violations violations during this election but it hasn't been confirmed by official by special observers just remind you how to say that seven hundred international observers and five hundred thousand russian observers have been more literary and this is election and we have been able of course to speak to all of them but. we've managed to speak to say that this is election. were actually transparent and fair and

pretty much happy with how it went. all right he's very afraid live from the central election committee maria thank you very much indeed and i will speak to you later. and so far preliminary results show that the ruling united russia is leading the ballot was fifty percent in what appears to be a significant drop in popularity and short of a parliamentary majority and our correspondent daniel bushell is at the party's headquarters for us but you know to roger has got over fifty percent of the vote but it's still the two thirds majority required to get laws through russia's parliament all its own so people here party officials are disappointed that not just because the vote is much lower than they saw in the elections four years ago but also because it's lower than many of the predictions for this election and nevertheless this surprise is seen as another confirmation that the elections have

been transparent and fair. has spoken of the voting ended here muted the party will have to govern in coalition he said that the economic crisis the world economic situation has made some people's lives difficult more difficult and that has reflected itself in some of the anger that we've seen coming into the polls. said that he warned russia does not does not need to rest it needs. party which is able to govern russia effectively we can listen to exactly what he had to say but the party has to form fairly well the party represents almost fifty percent of the population base is the result of a democratic process but taken into account the more complex makeup of the parliament will have to form coalitions with other parties of the various issues and this is what power me and democracy is all about and the leaders of other parties so that they're ready for that. then we have a clip showing some of the party's agenda as well as a little bit of the criticism that united russia has faced coming into this

election which i think we can watch now as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats. he swapped seats with dmitri medvedev in two thousand and eight but may do so again in twenty twelve after midday to propose putin for the presidency campaign slogan future is not priorities modernization tackling inequality fighting corruption maximizing russia's impact international affairs criticized as a monolith that's too slow to react to social change the award for being home to the tandem of law and dmitri medvedev wanted russia action two thousand and eleven on r.t. . and i was spoke to a prime minister's lehtinen person spokesperson daytrippers cough and he told us the united russia party is satisfied with the result even though its popularity has

dropped. as soon as the party gets a majority in the parliament and as soon as the this result allows the party to continue its politics to continue its line to take a significant part in creation of the new government and so on and so forth has to be considered as a victory of the party we have to remember that this party was ruling party in the country during a very harsh and very tough period during the last four years it was a period with. a crisis on the part of managed managed to minimise the consequences of this crisis together with the government certainly we can party could not satisfy everyone in this country and this way. it has lost some percentage some percentage but again i repeat it proved to be the leading political power in the country and now the communist party united russia is main rival is in second place on has almost doubled the number of votes it received in the two thousand and seven

elections that's according to preliminary results of course with counting still continuing and our correspondent is at the party's headquarters with the latest. they're not quite so liberating you wouldn't see any seventeen around here but i have to say that they are rather calm and collected they would in a way into this election promising increase in russian promising to better russian military to strengthen russia's position on the world the arena to resurrect the russian village and basically increase russia's influence in the world political arena and it looks like those promises have actually found have actually found some sort of response among the voters hearts and minds that because their numbers are speaking for themselves really they're almost near that twenty percent barrier of course they're they come yes they're hoping to break that barrier by the end of the night but of course we have to wait an hour for to wait for the fiscal results for that to happen now the head of the communist party even if you know it was a gun it was here earlier this evening and here it was rather adamant mostly

talking about the violations which the observers from the communist party have allegedly observed at the polling stations they talked about various forms of violations they even said that some of the communist observers are at the at the observers from the communist party were beaten up at the polling stations they didn't specify where exactly that happened not what is the communist party all about these days let's have a look at this. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats party leader gennady zyuganov types the achievements of communism from before his time but he's criticized for his approach mall with the russian orthodox church current campaign slogan the politics of the majority is made to we will return the motherland stolen from us priorities free education and housing publishing illegal immigration and introducing ethnicity stamps in passports to the success story second presidential elections since the end of the

u.s.s.r. criticized for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners and a discontented industrial working class. for its red flags with the hammer and sickle the communist party of the russian federation do i lecture two thousand to eleven on our t.v. . over one hundred people have been arrested in moscow as political organizations both pro-government and opposition tried to stage rallies on election day out is jacob greaves has been monitoring events in the city center but as you said actually these opposition protests have been somewhat light on the ground that's radical nature throughout the course of the day there will be more individuals than say parties or movements as such no less the less drugs were detained that's just the high we outside of the credibility of manners square a few numbers the table police this is a police tactic we soon use throughout the whole day where why

a number of them are linking of the across the width of a making sure the having the weight of following these protesters towards the area that they want them mainly metro station this is after nine o'clock or nine o'clock or so it's the end of the day or science is not alone for electioneering all protests to take place but here it is then that because the poll stations have no clothes around russia. jake agrees reporting there from central moscow for us and university political science professor go hard among god you told us earlier that the loss of the party united russia should increase western acceptance of the elections democratic validity the election. to reshape the. elections is an electoral process is simply manipulated. will the ruling party have. to do anyway or does he looks great then it

has been expected right western powers so the image. is very. international relations. russia. dr patrick fuller capital science connections who has extensive involvement in international business and technology ventures in russia says it modernization over the next ten or fifteen years will be vital for the country modernization is really key for the russian economy is no as we go forward over the next ten or fifteen years those oil and gas revenues decline you have to ask yourself what what is going to move into to plug the gap so building an economy that's able to capitalize on the intellectual strengths of russia which is where i see the important changes taking place is really key and my questions are really about things like the sculpture

innovation project and so on is that which was mr may get a project is that going to continue to prosper if we see. the decline in the one russia ruling party if mr putin comes in next year as he is i suppose widely expected. as the new president will he continue to focus for all to be some changes there this is really this is a really crucial issue i think for russia to grapple with in the coming years and so far over eighty percent of the votes have been counted in russia's parliamentary election probably when the results show that the ruling united russia is leading with around fifty percent down from the sixty four percent share they won in the last election four years ago and short of constitutional much already so stay with us here for the most in-depth coverage of the paul with all the latest developments figures and analysis.

to other news now you ring in forces say they've shut down an american a manned drone in the east of the country the aircraft used for spying was recovered on a on the ground not damaged and all french and its national at times it says the u.s. has broken international law but sending the drunk to iran there's an r.q. one seventy advanced stealth reconnaissance drone which what i'm hearing is they lost it over afghanistan last week others are saying must be busily looking at this drone and what a great way of. creating technology transfer this is an incredibly serious event and it's of course against international law the united states yet again breaking

international law with these dreams it's interesting that even some neo conservatives are criticizing obama saying well we're talking about nuclear facilities iran is thinking about a much bigger game. this is really about influence within the into the region egypt is a big loss to the united states after the fall of the u.s. back to day to mubarak so from the atlantic to the indian oceans and of course even greece backing some oil sanctions against syria against iran this is a case of the western media feeding loads of people the idea that these countries are isolated when in fact the world is now changing. syria has reportedly accepted the arab league's plan to send a mission of foreign observers into the country and this comes in the wake of sustained foreign pressure on damascus with the un's a high commissioner for human rights calling for international intervention and she said four thousand people have been killed since russia's began almost nine months

ago however syria's ambassador to the u.n. responded by warning that the solution to the crisis can't come from abroad a resolution that could have paved the way for military intervention in syria was blocked by russia and china and they believe the u.n. continue struggle no reports of atrocities committed by opposition fighters and i think that foreign meddling would only made the situation worse political analyst dr gas said question is just that sanctions that have been imposed are aimed at. these sanctions are meaningless actually i think they're meaningless and on every level on the level on the economic level and on the security level it will not stop the violence western powers particularly the united states now to use these sanctions to use the decisions of the arab league for their own purposes to put pressure on syria to put pressure not for the syrian regime to stop the killing as they put it you know what they want is do we commit syrian regime and to weaken the

alliance between syria iran and lebanon i don't think they they. so much for for syrian blood in libya more than one hundred thousand people were killed by nato bombings and the country was devastated that nobody said anyone so can't actually believe that there. are three thousand syrians when they are not actually what about more than one hundred thousand libyans it has nothing to do with stopping the violence on the contrary they're feeding the bodies we can't expect the syrian government and the syrian army to end the violence if the other if the gangs do not stop atrocities against the syrian armed forces. state newspaper is reporting islam is past his have taken an overwhelming lead in the opening round of the country's first post revolution parliamentary election their muslim brotherhood's freedom and justice party reportedly gained forty percent of the vote with the fundamentalist new party thought to have claimed

around twenty five percent however the results aren't final as most parties are set to go through two for his election rounds over the next two months but as a policy reports from cairo many in the streets fill their votes or careless or wait. long to vote to stay fingers and or record turnout over a sign of political interest in a country where decades of dictatorship has left little appetite for the power of the ballot the faces of the small down of one for most of the street corner and wanting to persons are excited to be voting in a real mix and these say maybe hold nothing but. there are only iran but i just tried. to meet you down with. a few there are tens of thousands like this now mohammed young unemployed and frustrated they think it doesn't matter who they vote for because the military will still make all the important decisions the problem is you know what or that she going to

produce a parliament that cannot appoint ministers that cannot appoint a government. whose constitution whatever it turns out to be is going to be guarded by the army many in egypt say they will continue to camp out until his square at the center of the revolution and in front of the parliament building youth movement leaders like dravot are protesting what they see as an empty vote of no democratic mandate who will be. we will not go inside your office we have to stop you and you have to go and we do. two more rounds of voting still need to take place but a strong showing of the muslim. brotherhood leaves little doubt that the islamist parties will have a significant majority in parliament for what it's worth although claims of a record sixty two percent turnout is already being questioned after a series of irregularities were reported the country's only female candidate for

the presidency is not surprised. monitoring the election just to point out their mistakes. we have no way for democracy but the west has been quick to praise the election as an important step towards change although the americans are beginning to say well no the army must go back to barracks deep down they'll be perfectly happy to keep the army where it is in egypt if you give one point three billion dollars a year to the egyptian army which the americans do you with your expected to do what it wants which nice little room for the people to get what they want sitting the stage for more to hear turmoil policy r.t. . police have arrested more than a dozen occupy protesters in the u.s. city of portland the latest on the quad down on the movement across the country so please bond of the night at the state parks what terms have been setup but some accidents refuse to go demonstrations accuse officers of using violence against

a peaceful rally pushing people to the ground with claims that teenager was hit by bottom panel gratian follows a wave of police works to dismantle occupy headquarters across the u.s. in the past few weeks marina portnoy reports the movement's message is beginning to resonate even with those whose job is to control that. occupy wall street has become an undeniable american household name oh. and please crackdowns against the democratic movement have become something of the norm not so normal is seeing one side endorse the other. retired philadelphia police captain bray lewis became the game changer on nov seventeenth arrested while demonstrating with occupy protesters on the streets of new york city the twenty four year veteran was held in police custody for eleven hours and received one comment from a new york cop nobody spoke to me this one individual said that i had the testicles

of an elephant although all of america's police force is part of the ninety nine percent captain lewis says cops secretly supporting w.-s. face dire consequences by going public tremendous fear of losing their job being disciplined being fired and then what do they do everybody in the ninety nine percent has that fear and police officers also they cannot risk they have children they have won what will they do once they're fired or no jobs available the nighttime raid on zuccotti park and subsequent arrest of dozens of journalists covering the story are among many reasons captain lewis says he temporarily transplanted to manhattan that's close to dictatorship. when you exclude the media . that's what dictators around the world and that is very scary brutal scare tactics such as pepper spray the tongs and flash grenades canisters have been used against occupy camps throughout the us oakland california resembles something of an

urban war zone this fall leaving a war vet in critical condition and the eyes of an eighty four year old burning from tear gas oakland police officer fred chavez is the only active cop who's gone on record with his support but totally agree with occupy wall street even to understand what i can broker i am a part of the ninety nine percent but most of our people are peaceful and i want to see change many believe the biggest change could calm when or if u.s. law enforcement officials stop suppressing the right to assemble and begin supporting it despite his arrest captain lewis is back at zuccotti park showing unwavering support for the occupy movement standing roughly ten or fifteen feet away from him a group of new york city police officers yes they're here securing the area but some are beginning to show a little interest for the first time i had an officer break ranks yesterday at the

barricade line a white officer named officer and introduced himself and if you question i said do you know the risk you're taking and he was so brave they said this is still america and until a supervisor ordered me back to the line i'm going to talk with you i hope to get mainstream america involved the players involved realizing that we're all victims of corporate america and that corporate america has got to be stopped marina port r.t. new york. basically his new government has finally adopted a package of emergency austerity measures aimed at saving the euro from collapse the crunch decision comes on the eve of monday's meeting of the german and french leaders to discuss closer fiscal union within the e.u. as a long term fix for the blocs deepening financial troubles because of the growing pressure on italy's finances the new austerity package was agreed a day early and as hopes to chop twenty billion euro from the country's debt stricken budget until the end of twenty fourteen fears about solvency of sunday's

sovereign boring cost of rocketing with its size of its economy meaning that its piling difficulties could sing the euro but economic analyst michael ross believes european leaders are just grazing a façade of action because the problems are here to stay. every week we have a new emergency meeting every week we have a news every week we have new hopes and nothing happens so this is the prognosis the forecast also for the summit next week and. to euro bonds this means nothing else then to the euro because you must not be an economist to know that two common currency cannot work without a common bond market in europe we are trying to serve in different countries with different cultures and different ways of living and of course we don't want to be ruled by brussels and nobody wants us all to the germans on one day and this is the real problem we have with this common currency it is not backed by the government

if you want to have a common currency you have to have one single rulership in europe brussels for example but nobody wants it so we are in a contradiction we only call the sec so i don't know how you will solve this problem. one hundred other news this week pakistan is boycotting an international conference on the future of afghanistan and you to take place in germany next week is the latest sign of a deepening crisis in relations between washington and islamabad following the most recent deadly nato air raid on a pakistani border post pakistan shut down a vital alliance supply route have ghana's down in response to the helicopter strike that killed twenty four but soldiers the incident described by a top pakistani officer as a deliberate act of aggression triggered anti-american protests across the country and some experts predict the troubled relations will get wise as the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan draws closer. i think should both the united states and

pakistan have this very strange relationship that they need each other and that probably before it absolutely ruptures there will be some concessions but you know the the united states is planning to leave by two thousand and fourteen all its troops there what will be left behind pakistan is determined to have a force in kabul that actually pakistan wants to support it in other words for similar to the taliban that is pressure to the base this is quite opposed to anything that the west wants so i think that the next two years are going to be fascinating when you've got two wholly different dynamics unfolding there. that's how the news looks the son of a banker the recount all top stories in just a few moments stay with us.

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